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August 19th, 2015 ~ Vol. 85 No. 32

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Sweet Music!

The Turtle Mountain Music Camp held their annual music event in Coleman from August 13 to 16. Several students attended and the event was a resounding success with 100% growth from the previous year. Events included technique classes, ear training, t-shirt decorating and world drumming lessons with Joe Porter from the University of Lethbridge.

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Crowsnest Pass Weather

A friend indeed for senior in need

A new Company will soon be opening its doors In the Crowsnest Pass. Their business card simply states their agenda. “ It’s not how old you are but [...]

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Good Start with BearSmart and kids

The Super Value parking lot was transformed into a small educational function concerning bears on Wednesday august 12th.
Children were given the opportunity to [...]

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Crowsnest Dental getting ready for Grand Opening

Construction will be completed this month for the highly awaited Crowsnest Dental Complex, located on the former Blairmore Legion site.
Currently there are [...]

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Greenhill Mine votes on worker unionization

Greenhills workers, the only of Teck’s mine workers in the Elk Valley not yet unionized, might join the Steelworkers union next week. Employees at the Greenhills Mine north of Elkford have expressed [...]

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Hope for the Pass Community Pool upgrade still on

The Pass Community Pool has been a large area for concern for many in the Crowsnest Pass, especially since news arrived that the pool would not receive [...]

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A Fabulous Flop - The Gyrojet

Sometimes inventions are game changing and sometimes they are just bad ideas not thought through clearly. I have a few ideas in my head that may or may not be zingers but rarely share them as I usually get funny looks. One that occurred to me recently has to do with those unreadable instructions on [...]

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New owners at Blairmore Precision

According to James, “when former owner Eric Muff decided to sell the business he offered first rights to purchase to James who then decided to ask his brother Will to come on board as joint owners.
James started with Precision [...]

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Pass Piranhas win gold at Regionals

It was a fantastic weekend of swimming for members of the Pass Piranhas Swim Club on the weekend of August 7.
The Piranhas represented the Crowsnest Pass during the year-end regional championship held in Lethbridge.
The swim club began [...]

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Canada 150 Winners

John Barlow, Member of Parliament for Macleod, on behalf of the Honourable Michelle Rempel, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification, announced support of [...]

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Teck extends Cougar Pit and Coal Mountain extension updates

Upon request for updates on Coal Mountain Phase 2 (which is in the early stages of its environmental assessment process) and on the proposed Cougar Pit Extension (proposed to extend the life of Greenhills Operations) Teck has offered the Elk Valley Herald the following updates: [...]

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The Women of Steel donate to the CNP Food Bank

For the past 4 years The Women of Steel Union’s (United Steelworkers Local 9346) women’s committee has provided backpacks full of school supplies to underprivileged kids in the Elk Valley and the Crowsnest Pass from K-12.
The group fundraise all the funds throughout the year to buy [...]

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Grassy Mountain Coal project and Golf course

The Grassy Mountain Coal Project took a mini step forward July 21, when council gave conditional approval to locate the coal loading facility for the proposed mine on the [...]

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Crowsnest artist wins ‘Red Ribbon First’ at Calgary Stampede

Yvonne Martinez is sometimes asked why she likes painting birds.
“If somebody painted flowers, would they be asked why they paint flowers?” she rhetorically asked over coffee at the Stone’s Throw Cafe. “It goes without saying that [...]

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Masked robber strikes
BCMI

On July 20 at around 10 p.m., a masked robber entered the Best Canadian Motor Inn in Coleman and made off with [...]

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Pass’ Community Peace Officer will be joining the RCMP

After three years serving the community, Community Peace Officer Vincent Duguay will be leaving the Pass and joining the RCMP.
“I’ve been here since the program started,” he said. “I’ve met [...]

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Community groups unite to fight weeds in Hillcrest

In the lead up to the war in Iraq Condoleezza Rice said, “We need a common enemy to unite us.”
Those words rang true last week when eighteen volunteers from a coalition of local organizations met along the [...]

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